‘Library man’ builds one in his village

Recently,Dr Jaswant also established a library in his village Judahan in an area of 1,450 square feet. The newly constructed hexagonal building includes an audio-visual room,a computer room,a store room,two books rooms and a large reading room. Dr Jaswant said,“‘I have spent $35,000 on its construction,other than the cost of land and have deployed two employees for running the library and one as caretaker. This library has more than 4,000 books on different subjects,of which 1,500 are for children.”

About three years ago,Dr Jaswant Singh inspired one of his NRI friends,Joginder Singh Kalsi,to open a library in his village Singh Dhesian in Jalandhar distict. He said,“‘It is running very successfully and people of different age groups do come there to read books. After witnessing the success of this library,I also decided to establish one in my village.”